The summer’s third author event is a conversation between two of our 2025 Six-Week Workshop instructors. Join Diana Pho, editor of Erewhon Books, and award-winning writer Carlos Hernandez as they answer your questions about the state of science fiction and fantasy publishing today. Have a novel you've finished that you'd love to untrunk? Wondering what...
Bring your WIP for a one hour virtual writing session hosted by Clarion Alum and Unicorn Author Club founder Minal Hajratwala (CW'19). Need a prompt? We have those, too!
New This Year: Unlock Special Guest Instructor Q&As for the whole community! July 24: Join us for our third Write-a-thon Bonus Q&A in Zoom at 6:00 PM Pacific with Charlie Jane Anders! We're on target to raise $15,000 for the Write–a-thon, unlocking our third surprise guest (a past Clarion West instructor!) Charlie Jane Anders! Joining...
Join us for this one hour introduction to Scrivener, brought to you by Write-a-thon sponsor Literature & Latte! This webinar will be held in Zoom so bring your questions.
July’s open mic will be another summer partnership between Clarion West and Two Hour Transport! Held at the Magnuson Park Amphitheater, this outdoor open mic is a community favorite. This is a free event.
The Clarion West Summer Reading Series will be held virtually and streamed live over Zoom during the Six-Week Workshop. Join us for our final event, a conversation between Martha Wells and Kate Elliott! This event will begin with a conversation between Martha and Kate. There will be time to take questions from the audience. Participants will be...
Join the Clarion West board, staff, and the Class of 2025 to celebrate their graduation from the Six-Week Workshop! This will be a hybrid event with student readings, a presentation of each graduate (via Zoom), and recognition of the Octavia E. Butler Scholarship recipient. The event will be followed by a social that will take...
* Venue capacity: we have reached capacity for tonight's event, please sign-up for the wait-list for updates by emailing . Join the Clarion West board, staff, and Seattle Community to kick off WorldCon in Seattle! You can expect a classic, potluck-style Clarion West summer party. The event is free and all are welcome. No WorldCon membership required....
Join the Clarion West board, staff, and Seattle Community for an off-site Worldcon event for alumni and friends! The event begins with a reading featuring Andrea Hairston (CW ’99), Tim Chawaga (CW ’19), Natalia Theodoridou (CW ’18), David Sandner (CW ’87), Kristina Ten (CW ’19), and Henry Lien (CW ’12). After a short state-of-the-org and...
In this one-hour live Q&A, writers, editors, and Clarion West instructor super team Jack Dann and Jonathan Strahan will share their experiences and lessons learned over 30 years in the publishing industry. Whether your focus is on novels, short fiction, editing, or collaborating with other writers, bring your questions and come prepared to take notes.
Join us at this launch event for science-fiction author and roboticist Daniel H. Wilson's new novel Hole in the Sky, pitched as an alien first contact story set on a Cherokee reservation. Daniel is in conversation with author Nisi Shawl, moderated by GeekWire's Alan Boyle. This event is free both streaming and in-person. Haven't registered? Space...
Join Cory Doctorow (Enshittification), Ed Zitron (Better Offline), and moderator Whitney Beltrán for a discussion of how reckless tech policy created an enshittogenic environment that allowed the worst people in our most structurally important corporations to turn them into vast, remorseless extraction machines, without facing any government, market, technological or labor consequences - and to...